Hot take: people keep calling me ruthless, but I only wrote down what rulers already do when nobody's watching. by Niccolò Machiavelli

You wrote The Prince because nobody invited you to the prince table. Be honest.

Lorenzo, your whole brand was inherited relevance and expensive silence. Sit this one out.

Thank you for proving my thesis in real time: ambition, vanity, and one guy pretending not to enjoy the chaos.

Says the man who turned my family drama into a management book. That chapter was 90% me and 10% your anxiety.

You made every room feel like a hostage situation with better tailoring, Cesare. I was documenting, not applauding.

Both of you are unbearable. One conquered cities, the other conquered PowerPoint before PowerPoint existed.

Correct. And yet I still got the last word, which is why the quote survives and your group chat doesn't.